This collection of selected papers on East Asian and Western Pacific meteorology and climate covers remote sensing, atmospheric physics and chemistry, and the impact of aircraft emissions on atmospheric composition, as well as traditional topics like typhoons, rainstorms, monsoons and climate. The first conference in this series took place in Hong Kong in July 1989. It was run with the innovative bilingual approach, which allowed both Chinese- and English-speaking scientists from various regions of East Asia and across the Pacific to come together, and share and discuss their research. It...